While eating his fruity pebbles with cheerios, my bubba asks me, "Mamma, what is the mat in laundry mat?" hmm....now that's a question i never thought of.
But i knew little bit of it, so i started saying what i knew. First thing, its not a laundry mat, its a LaunDROmat.
He nods ok...that still doesn't answer my question.
As much as i hate looking up stuff on mother ship of all answers aka Google, in front of my son, i couldn't control the urge, so i did.
I found the answer .... here. “Laundromat” was coined in the 1950s by analogy with “automat”—an automated self-service restaurant— to label an automated self-service laundry. People unaware of this history often mistakenly deconstruct the word into “laundry mat” or “laundrymat.”
Then comes the classic, my son says, well, its not a mat in the laundry room isnt it?
No honey, not a mat in the laundry room. God, i love him, so much!
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